Mostene

Asia minor 400AD

Mostene (Μοστήνη) is a Roman and Byzantine era city in ancient Lydia,[1] located today at Kepecik in modern Turkey.

The town minted its own coin of which many examples exist today.[2] In 17AD the city was hit by a earthquake[3] and was assisted withrelefi from Tiberius.

There is debate, based on a line in Tacitus,[4] over whether Mostene was a Macedonian Colony. Cranmer[5] argues for the Macedonian ethnos while Getzel M. Cohen[6] argues for a native Lydian population.

Mostene was also the site of a Bishopric. The diocese belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Sardis and remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church to this day .[7] The diocese was suffragan of the ecclesiastical province of Sardis under Patriarchate of Constantinople.

References

  1. ↑ Ptol. 5.2.16.
  2. ↑ Ancient Coinage of Lydia, Mostene.
  3. ↑ Tacitus. Annals. 2,47,3
  4. ↑ Tacitus, Annals II.47
  5. ↑ John Anthony Cramer, A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Volume 1 (The University Press, 1832).p428
  6. ↑ Getzel M. Cohen, p219.
  7. ↑ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3m58.html


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